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Prince Charles on the Canonisation of John Henry Newman
Volume 33 Issue 10, 11 & 12 | Posted: December 20, 2019
The canonisation of Blessed John Henry Newman will be a cause for celebration, not just for Catholics or for the people of Britain but for all who share his vision, Prince Charles has said. In an article for The Times, due to published at fuller length in L’Osservatore Romano, the Prince of Wales wrote that the world needs Newman’s example more than ever, and that the soon-to-be canonised saint “could advocate without accusation, could disagree without disrespect and perhaps most of all could see differences as places of encounter rather than exclusion.”
The canonisation of Blessed John Henry Newman will be a cause for celebration, not just for Catholics or for the people of Britain but for all who share his vision, Prince Charles has said. In an article for The Times, due to published at fuller length in L’Osservatore Romano, the Prince of Wales wrote that the world needs Newman’s example more than ever, and that the soon-to-be canonised saint “could advocate without accusation, could disagree without disrespect and perhaps most of all could see differences as places of encounter rather than exclusion.”
“His engagement first With Anglican theology, and after his conversion Catholic theology, impressed even his opponents with its fearless honesty, its unsparing rigour and its originality of thought,” the Prince wrote. “Whatever our own beliefs or tradition, we can be thankful for the gifts rooted in his Catholic Faith, which Newman shared wider society: his intense and moving spiritual autobiography and his deeply-felt poetry in The Dream of Gerontius which, set to music by Sir Edward Elgar – another Catholic of whom all Britons can be proud – gave the world one of its most enduring choral masterpieces.”
(see Lead News article)